To feel disgusted with this article when families are being made homeless every day

[Strawberrydelight78]

I just feel it's in bad taste and they shouldn't be publishing they're success. They are getting stick for it.

www.lancs.live/whats-on/whats-on-news/fresh-thinking-lake-district-couples-26823735

It’s not so much about all news should be negative it’s about the idea of capitalism and greed and how this has affected the housing market because people are allowed to buy multiple properties to rent out. These people should be taxed at higher rates but of course they won’t be because it’s usually the Tories and their mates who are benefitting

Making success viewed as something shameful will just lead to a culture of lack of ambition.

I am anti holiday lets and refuse to use them however I still think YABU
Are we not allowed to report success now

If you want to blame anyone blame the people who rent them
They are the ones that give the business fuel
No customers and they would soon get sold

Quite surprised by the tone of responses here. There's a serious housing shortage - particularly in the Lake District - that's exacerbated by rich people buying up second, third, fourth houses. This couple are making money by helping those rich people.

The people using the holiday homes probably aren't putting much into the local economy either - a bit of cash goes to the management company, but most goes to Mr I Own Lots Of Houses down in that there London. They might be eating out, I suppose, but probably less than if they stayed in a B and B.

YANBU

Am not anti business - would absolutely cheer them on if they'd made something or been creative. This is just rent-seeking.

Yep, just rent-seeking and lining the pockets of those who clearly don’t need the money. Families are being evicted every day owing to landlords wanting to increase rent. Where is all the social housing that was promised? Oh no, they don’t want that do they because they want their private rents to stay at a premium.

The people using the holiday homes probably aren't putting much into the local economy either

I bet they are. We stay in a holiday cottage in the Dales twice a year. We eat out three or four times, spend a fortune on lovely cheese, ice cream and various foods unavailable at home and often buy a piece of art to bring home. Every time we stay we benefit the local economy by several hundred ££. The village where we stay would be stuffed without the holiday trade.

The people using the holiday homes probably aren't putting much into the local economy either

Strong disagree. They are on holiday! It's not just eating out, it's shopping, coffees, visiting attractions, filling up with petrol, whatever. If they can't rent a holiday home in that location, they'll go somewhere they can and spend £££ there.

Why is having more property any more offensive than people having any other sort of assets or good fortune?

Is it offensive to write about parenthood when there are infertile people out there, who desperately want children? Offensive to write travel articles when there are individuals who can't afford travel? Offensive to write about style when some people can't afford new clothing?

During the Great Depression, movies about glamour and rich lifestyles were popular as a distraction. Now there is so much envy and jealousy, people only want the lowest common denonimator rather than anything aspirational.

‘It’s insensitive’

So? You don’t have the right to have your sensitivities pandered to. You’re not in control of what others have, or do. What you are in control of is, frankly, sucking it up and coping with it, not putting the onus on others to spare your feelings. Some people have more than you, as you have more than others. That’s life.

I think you’ll find having somewhere to live is a necessity in life. What you’ve listed are material things. They’re not essential. My views aren’t borne out if jealousy. I have a comfortable life with a trip to the Caribbean booked. That doesn’t mean I can’t see how corrupt this government is and how the housing crisis is a shocking state of affairs

Disgusting is definitely not the word I’d use for a successful couple being featured in the local paper to discuss their business and get some PR. Get a grip.

But my having children doesn't take away from the supply of children, my buying a nice frock doesn't make it harder for you to buy clothes, my having a nice meal out doesn't mean you can't. If anything I'm helping keep that primary school viable/ clothes shop solvent/ restaurant open and giving you more options.

My buying a house and using it as a holiday house or holiday let does make it harder for you to to buy a home for you and your family to live in. It's really hard to build houses, especially in this country. Housing just isn't like other asset classes.

There's another thread on today started by a woman panicked because she's being evicted and can't afford to rent anywhere. They have a decent income, work hard and have two disabled kids. They're good people and they have no idea what to do.

That's the context in which its hard to cheer for savvy investors snapping up holiday homes.

And sure people in holiday homes spend money locally - but the accomodation part of their budget is going straight to the absentee landlord not locally; they're likely to spend more time in the house than out or about; some of the year there'll be noone there spending money; and all of the year there's no one using local schools/gp surgeries/hardware shops. Too many holiday homes and all that starts to wither.

Lord knows we've used airbnb - am not some perfect smug angel here!

What a sad and bitter individual you must be

We tend to use Sallys Cottages for the lake district but then we dont go top end or anything.

Because she cares about the housing crisis and the greed of people having second homes? Do me a favour

Why? I love seeing people’s success stories.

I think it’s a great business concept and article. Might encourage a few more people to think outside the box in terms of their career.

Actually it does when there's a lot of people borrowing money from banks which happened over lockdown interest rates go up. Making it harder for people to buy a home or keep up with mortgage payments.

Tell that to the students of university of Cumbria not able to find accommodation in the lakes.

As you only holiday in hotels, camp site etc, do you consider it morally reprehensible to holiday in anything other than a hotel, camp site, or chalet? Ought everyone using B&B's and similar for holidays to be ashamed of themselves?

I don't think we should talk about our social security system, free healthcare, free education, food banks, our democracy, not our moderate climate.

Because that is offensive to the millions of people in the world with no healthcare, no education for their children, no safety net living at the mercy of drought, flood or earthquake and fearing the knock of the state security services on their door in the dead of night.

I'm not a successful or rich person. But if I was, I wouldn't be wearing a hair shirt about it and hiding it lest someone less fortunate was to take offense.

There have always been people richer and poorer than each one of us. Twas ever thus or something like that.

Whole towns and communities are disappearing. There's a town in Wales that only has one house that's a home. There's no shop because tourists don't use the local shop. They go to out of town supermarkets. It also means that they struggle to get staff to work in pub's and restaurants because they can't get anywhere to live. I live an hour away from the lakes. I know people who work in the lakes but travel every day. Because even if they did find a house to rent or buy. They wouldn't be able to afford to live there.

Just some of the comments even the positive comments have negative opinions as well.